Can we get the forum more compatible with Netscape 9 on Windows ME?
haha!
I was goofing around in Virtualbox and had a Windows ME disc on hand from 20 years ago. I was able to get it working and online. Most sites are using modren TLS security (which they should) and won’t work in Navigator or Firefox 2.0
ME is considered one of the buggiest OS’s Microsoft ever made, but so far I’ve not had an actual BSOD. But I’ve had several kernel panics (basically the same as a BSOD) and had to reboot the VM.
Getting this updated with some video drivers, Firefox and Navigator would have been near impossible if it weren’t for native support for the gopher protocol. I used my own gopher hole to upload the old software to my server. Then with the native support in IE4 (maybe it shipped with IE5) for gopher, I was easily able to load up my gopher hole and download the files I needed. Trying to use the web (http) to find or download files was impossible as was trying some ftp servers.
